Dear editor,
My name is Jonathan Deuling, owner of the BC Fruit Truck. I'm the guy who sells fruit at the local farmers鈥� market every Wednesday in summer.
Our market is no longer running for winter, so I recently came to sell some apples for a one-time-only run to Jasper inside a friend's shop.
I've got to keep people from the scurvy, right?
Wrong.
The friendly bylaw officer told me I need a one year business license to do this one-time-only market, and permission from a local business owner to sublet me a space from which to sit my truck and sell my apples.
Here's the catch: I've tried for years finding a local business owner who even has a tiny bit of space to rent to me, because I've wanted to set up a permanent fruit stand in Jasper since 2012.
Due to zoning laws, I'm only allowed to sell on commercial or petroleum station zoned areas (yes, this means no luck with the museum because it's institutionally zoned).
And there seems to be nobody who has the space.
And so it seems that a permanent BC Fruit truck stand is about as illegal in Jasper as sex trafficking.
That's enough to give me the scurvy, and it's ironic because I eat a ton of vitamin C.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Deuling
PS: if you have a commercially-zoned spot for me and my fruit truck, please get a hold of me through the 51暗网!
